Woman in her 40s dies after amniotic fluid embolism during childbirth; baby safely delivered

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A woman in her 40s with no background illnesses developed an amniotic fluid embolism during her labor at Maayanei HaYeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. Her condition deteriorated, and the medical staff carried out prolonged resuscitation.

Sheba teams were dispatched to Maayanei HaYeshua to connect the woman in labor to an ECMO machine, and she was transferred to the intensive care unit at Sheba Medical Center. The baby was safely delivered and remained under observation at Maayanei HaYeshua Hospital, and her condition is good.

The woman, Miriam Bracha Ben Hamo, a mother of eight from Modi'in Illit, died at Sheba after the medical teams fought for her life for about a day. The youngest children were left alive after the birth, and the newborn was born in good condition.